Founding Recruiter

ABOUT TYPESAFE TypeSafe is a frontier model lab. We build reliable and general AI systems to power economically valuable automation. Our mission is to usher in a new era of Transformative Artificial Intelligence (TAI): technology with the power to drive a societal shift on the scale of the agricultural and industrial revolutions. While others chase benchmarks and academic puzzles, we've been quietly rethinking the LLM stack from first principles — building a new kind of general frontier model designed for real-world reliability, decision-making, and autonomy in production. We're a small, fast-moving team from OpenAI, Google Brain, and Meta/FAIR, backed by top-tier investors. Since mid-2024, we've been engineering the foundation for what comes after the current "state-of-the-art" — a model that actually gets things done. ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for our first internal recruiter hire to shape our hiring process and systems, build a world-class talent brand, and hire amazing team members. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own the end-to-end recruiting function: sourcing, recruiting, coordinating, closing - Shape hiring process to craft both a fantastic candidate experience at every touchpoint, from first outreach through offer - Run the day to day operations such as interview coordination and quick feedback loops - Understand our unique culture and diverse talent needs to hire a world-class team - Develop and execute sourcing strategies to build pipelines of highly qualified candidates - Build out teams from scratch across multiple functions - Define and track recruiting metrics and use data to drive continuous improvement - Take a high level strategic view of talent management and planning with the executive team WE ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO - Have 5+ years of experience in full cycle recruiting with proven success, particularly in scaling strong technical teams - Have experience scaling teams in high-growth, fast-paced environments - Are comfortable navigating ambiguity, making judgment calls with imperfect information, and operating with a high degree of autonomy - Are kind, emotionally aware, and genuinely care for people's wellbeing - Have a bias for action to move quickly and creatively to engage top tier talent - Have exceptional organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple searches and priorities simultaneously - Are excited about our mission and about playing an instrumental role in furthering that mission - Nice to have: Excited to build, test, and dogfood recruiting tooling and systems LIFE AT TYPESAFE We're a small, flat, close-knit team dedicated to real-world impact preparing the world for Transformative AI. Our team works fully in-person in our San Francisco office near Embarcadero station. We love what we do and care about our work a lot. We strive for excellence and craftsmanship and won't stop until we get there. When the team wins, we all win, and we enjoy collaborating and inspiring each other to grow as a team and as individuals. We also value emotional honesty, kindness, and bringing your whole self to work. We build machines; we don't try to be machines. We want you to be able to do the most impactful work of your career at TypeSafe and help define our future as a company. WE PROVIDE - Base salary of $150k–250k plus equity, based on leveling - 100% covered health insurance - Daily lunch and dinner - Visa sponsorships - 401K plans